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Genius Loci: Mid-week-pick-me-up

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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 4 April 2025

And then, without warning - a chiaroscuro. The landscape delivers its crescendo: the spire of the Marble Church piercing the firmament from a brace of gargoyles, that project above a dip in the distant Clwydian hills.

Aerial Video Biddlestone Chapel, Northumberland

A Roman Catholic chapel at Biddlestone, built atop a medieval pele tower.

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 28 March 2025

I think it’s because there’s a clarity of message here - a kind of truth that asks nothing of you. Not the sort that needs proving or defending, but one that is simply known, absorbed.

Genius Loci: Mid-week-pick-me-up

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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 21 March 2025

I think of how fortunate we are to have these places. I’m grateful for the spaces that engage us, that challenge the mundanity of the everyday.

Patina 32nd Edition

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 14 March 2025

Then, instinctively, I reach into my bag. My fingers graze the edge of my sketchbook. It’s such a comforting feeling - that first touch tingles because of the depth of its meaning. Should I?

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 7 March 2025

Amidst the medieval ridge and furrow are lumps and bumps that mark events from the past, reverberating through this place. It was at Repton that a great Viking army wintered in 873 AD under the leadership of Ivar the Boneless. The lumps and bumps are the boundaries of their camp.